17 Questions - Rob Warner
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Funniest thing you'll see all week (until we release the B-Sides). Former World Cup DH shredder and the classiest man in the booth during the World Cup DH webcasts, Rob Warner, handles the dreaded 17 without hesitation. #29ersindownhill

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The questions

1. Do you get nervous before a World Cup commentary session?

2. Do you think Claudio is a little too harsh on Brendog during his runs?

3. If you could have one dream co-commentator in the booth with you, who would it be?

4. What’s the worst part about commentating a race?

5. What’s the best part?

6. Have you been coached for commentating or is it natural?

7. Are you bummed we’re asking so many questions about commentating instead of your illustrious DH racing career?

8. Did you or Peaty ever get any blowback for coming clean with the “car crash” story in the bonus of Won’t Back Down?

9. So is your sponsorship with Commencal a results-based sponsorship?

10. If you come to SoCal, will you do an Inside Line podcast with Spomer?

11. Who’s winning Lourdes and who’s winning World Champs?

12. Rank the following from worst to best - Skinsuits, no visor or 29ers in downhill?

13. Do you think racing during your tenure was riskier than it is now?

14. Would you and Trump get along?

15. How often to people come up to you and yell, “LOOK AT THE TIME!”?

16. Will you enter Masters World Champs?

17. Wouldn’t you rather be training for Masters World Champs than answering these dumb questions?

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Kidwoo, you nailed it! I whole heartedly agree with you. Did anyone notice the start times for the men and the women on Redbull TV? I saw 5am for the women and 7am for the men (MDT). Does that mean they are showing all 20 women and all 80 men again? I really hope so! I also hope they use all the interviews and tech pieces for a separate show and show every bit of racing they capture. That stuff is interesting but not while I know I could be watching some one race.

I wholeheartedly disagree: drunkwarner and freecaster made racing great again.

We're seeing the result of having 'a future'. Not showing anywhere near the entire field coming down the course, wasting 20 minutes explaining what a bike is instead of showing racing, and a severe lack of Warner's anecdotes from the wild west of the 90s. Don't kid yourself. No non-mountain biker is going out of their way to deliberately tune into a red bull internet broadcast and buying a 6k bike because of it. It's better when it's for the intended audience.